Re: [jamboost] Header scanning change

From: Rene Rivera (grafik666_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-10-10 13:49:36

[2003-10-10] Mark Sheppard wrote:

>I never use SEARCH for finding sources - I guess this would need tweaking
if
>you do. Anyway my changes mean that Jam can now correctly find d.h in the
>following case:
>
> a.cpp:
> #include "b/c.h"
>
> b/c.h:
> #include "d.h"
>
> b/d.h:
> whatever
>
>Without this you'd have to explicitly add "b" to SEARCH somewhere. We've
>got headers spread all over the place so that would make SEARCH very long
>whereas INCPATH is relatively short.

One problem you should be aware of is that not all CPP's interpret the
#include "d.h" above to mean "include file d.h from directory b". Some
search a predefined user include path only, and others search only the PWD
directory.

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